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be made to germinate, will be found very successful. The 

 first plowing should be shallow, so as not to bury the seeds 

 too deep. The mature seed-bearing plants should never 

 be plowed under, as that would plant the seeds at differ- 

 ent depths. Mature plants should be mowed and burned 

 before plowing. The seed appears in clover, millet, and 

 the heavier grass seeds, and the plant is very often started 

 by this means. As the seed may be carried a long dis- 

 tance by the wind, the plants must be cleared out of fence- 

 rows, waste land, and roadsides. 



Long Leaved Plantain (called, also: Rib grass, Ripple 

 grass, English plantain, Buckhorn plantain), Plantago 



lanceolata. This plant 

 is much like the com- 

 mon plantain, from 

 which it differs in its 

 much longer and nar- 

 rower slightly hairy 

 leaves, and its shorter 

 and thicker seed spikes. 

 It is perennial, and is 

 apt to be very abundant 

 in upland meadows, 

 clover fields, and poor- 

 ly kept lawns. It is 



especially to be dreaded in red-clover fields, intended to be 

 cut for seed, since the seeds mature with those of the 

 clover and are of so nearly the same size and weight with 

 them that the two can not be easily separated. 



The plants can be destroyed by cutting their roots off 

 several inches below the surface of the ground and pulling 



'FlG. 84. Long leaved plantain. 



